Australian miner Lucapa Diamond, which operates mines in Angola (the Lulo mine) and Lesotho (the Mothae mine), has announced that it mined “record volumes” in the first quarter of the year (ended 31 March), according to IDEX Online.   Lucapa sold 7,162 carats from Lulo during Q1 – a rise

Norm Mountain Diamonds (SMD),  a subsidiary of Namakwa Diamonds’ together with the government of Lesotho, has recovered a 108.39-carat Fancy pink diamond from its Kao diamond mine in Lesotho. IDEX Online reports.   According to SMD, the “exceptionally rare Type IIa diamond” is one of the largest pink diamonds ever

Earlier this month, on April 8, the M. V. Lomonosov diamond mine in Arkhangelsk Province has witnessed a rare find: a heart-shaped diamond weighing 16.64 carats, Rough & Polished reports.   Last year, the same mine produced a rare cloud-shaped stone weighing 92.34 carats. In 2018,  a diamond shaped like

De Beers‘ Victor and Snap Lake mines in Canada, which began their closure in 2019 and 2022, respectively, are reaching the end of their “active closure” processes, Rough & polished reports.   Most of the infrastructure at the Victor mine has already been removed, and all of the Snap Lake